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A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state storage to store persistent data with the intention of providing access in the same manner of a traditional mechanical spinning/magnetic block I/O hard disk drive.

I've got a Laptop with 1 HDD and 1 SSD. On the SSD is both, Windows and Ubuntu, installed. Now I want to move my /home folder to the HDD on a seperate partition. How much space do I have to give the ...

I happen to work with some new and old computers, all of them 64-bits, with at least 4 GB of RAM. So my question could remind this one :
How can I install Ubuntu on an external hard drive so that I ...

I tried using hdparm but I'm not seeing anything using the -I option that lists the controller that my SSD uses.
Whether or not I can find the controller my SSD uses in its manual, I'd still like to ...

I often read that one should not place swap partitions on a SSD drive, as this may harm the device. Is this true? Can you please explain the reason to me?
Because I otherwise would have thought that ...

I am relatively new to Ubuntu and I have recently added a new 480Gb+ SSD drive. When I attempted to install a program onto the drive it wouldn't allow it to happen and a error would occur. I ended up ...

In a couple of days, I'm going to buy a new notebook (Asus N551, should it matter), tending to replace the HDD with a Samsung EVO 500GB SSD.
Now, I've often read that one should make sure that Ubuntu ...

I built my new computer last week and decided it was about time I installed my dual boot. I disconnected the gpu as I was getting an out of range issue with the monitors, presumably as a result of not ...

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and this system is connected with SSD (No HDDS just SSD). When i check "cat /sys/block/sda/queue/rotational" it shows 1. It doesn't seem to recognize the type of drive is ...

Is TRIM also enabled and working when moving the root partition to a Samsung Evo 850 SSD (no clean-install)? The home partition is still on my HDD. I've done this 2 months ago. I do know that TRIM is ...

Hello possible fellow Ubuntu-users,
Until now I've been using Windows operating systems and my current laptop is going to retire soon. In my search of a new, basic (read: not too expensive) laptop I ...

So, I have installed ubuntu on my SSD along with Windows 8.1. I have used three partitions for Ubuntu: swap, /, /home. All was fine until I had to shutdown or restart. It hangs/freezees every time. ...

I have a Lenovo G700 that I had Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on, I put an SSD in and did a clean install of 14.04 I want to put the original HDD in the Optical drive bay and want to use the original programs that ...

I'm on Xubuntu 15.04. I have been running quite happily for several months on a 250GB SSD: <5s boot time. I just swapped to a 500GB SSD (same brand, slightly different model). After initial cloning ...

So, I decided that installing Ubuntu and re-learning Linux would be beneficial. I downloaded Ubuntu (Latest version), unplugged all other HDD/SSD that I have in my PC and the install went perfect and ...

I wanted to reinstall Ubuntu and formatted all my disks but the installer got stuck when creating the primary partition on my ssd. I decided to create the partition manualy with gparted but whilst the ...

new machine, 258G SSD, 500G HDD. Main purpose of the machine is for data analysis, and Ubuntu is my preferred OS. Nonetheless, there are times when I need to use Microsoft Excel, therefore I do need ...

During a normal usage my system froze all of a sudden and then I had to reboot it after which I found the following log of errors. I am not able to even reinstall ubuntu because of I/O errors. Now I ...

Im facing the following issue on a new desktop machine:
I installed Win 10 Insider Preview
made a fat32 Partition on a USB stick, extracted x64 ubuntu iso to it and set boot flag
one ssd where win10 ...

I'm setting up a new machine with a SSD and a HDD. Windows is for gaming and Ubuntu for working. I'll install 8.1 first and leave 10GB on the SSD for /. On the HDD I'll leave 120GB for /home and the ...

I'm building a PC with a 128GB SSD and a 4TB HDD. I want to move my media collection from smaller external HDDs (NTFS) back into my PC (ext4). There's two formatting options and I tend to prefer the ...

I'm moving from a 1tb HDD to a 500gb SSD. On the HDD I have a 600gb partition for Windows and a 400gb partition for Ubuntu. On the SSD I have a 150gb partition for Windows, and a 350gb partition for ...